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Analyzing the satire of Gulliver's Travels Few casual readers look deeply enough to recognize the satire just below the surface. However Jonathan Swift was one of the great satirists of his or any other age, and Gulliver's Travels is surely the apex of his art. The Lilliputians are the embodiment of England of the time period. The Lilliputians are small people who control Gulliver through means of threats. "...when in an instant I felt above a hundred arrows discharged into my left hand, which pricked my like so many needles; and besides they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe". England was a small country that had Europe (represented by Gulliver) and many other parts of the world under their control. This example of comparing the political situation in Europe at the time to the story is further demonstrated by using Gulliver against the Blefescan...

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